Index of Names and Keywords

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Editors’ Introduction 1
5. Elizabethan Times
6. Shakespeare, Tragedy, Post-truth: Hamlet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra 5
7. Transfixing Shakespearean Worldliness: How Literary Texts Haunt Law and Politics 27
8. Substitution, the Counterfeit Angel and the Imprint of Law 47
9. Race, Ethnicity and Alterity in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus 71
10. The Reversal of Modernity: From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism 93
11. Do Shylock and Rumpelstiltskin win on appeal? The Justice of Silas Marner 111
12. I crave the law : De quelques passions juridiques 131
13. Shakespeare’s “Complex” Dance Imaginary from Text to Stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Frederick Ashton’s The Dream 153
14. Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Problems of Relativity 173
15. Hybrid Identities: Joan of Arc Between History, Drama and the Law 189
16. From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century
17. Johnathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and ‘The Cow Trial’: Law, Power, Justice and Eristics 215
18. A Painted Ship and a Painted Ocean: Gregson v Gilbert revisited 233
19. New Provinces of Writing and Legal Education: Law, Language and Society in Blackstone’s Commentaries 249
20. Law, Clemency and the Politics of Emotion in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg 275
21. Fairy Tales and the Representation of Female Education in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters 293
22. Female Forensics: The Woman Reader in Court in Charles Reade’s Griffith Gaunt (1866) 303
23. Revulsion, Paradigmatic Shifts and Legal Philosophy: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Path of the Law and its Impact on American Legal Thought 319
24. Il mostruoso e divino incanto: le sirene e un caso di ekphrasis 335
25. From Modernism to Post-postmodernism
26. Breaking the Silence: Cultural and Legal Encounters 349
27. Urban Readings: The City as Text in Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin 371
28. Embodied Monstrosity and Identitarian Fluidity in Jeanette Winterson’s Novels of the 1980s 387
29. “In Some Dark Form I’ll Continue”: James Ellroy’s Silent Terror 405
30. Barnes’ “The Stowaway” Between Post-Modernism and Post-Anthropocentrism 417
31. Resilience, Narrative Attentiveness and Care(‐giving): Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow 435
32. Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces 451
33. Mythic and Fairy-Tale Elements in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann 463
34. “Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong?” 477
35. Posts Manent, Lex Volat: Detective Stories in Electronic Literature 499
36. Promethean Longing: Ridley Scott’s Speculative Legalism 523
37. Epilogue: Back to Shakespeare and Towards the Contemporary Period
38. The Rocky Horror Show as Liminal, Gothic, Monstrous, Shakespearean Biolegal Fable 539
39. Contributors 557
40. Index of Names and Keywords 565